Stephen Stahl is an American author and professor of

psychiatry Psychiatry is the medical specialty devoted to the diagnosis, prevention, and treatment of mental disorders. These include various maladaptations related to mood, behaviour, cognition, and perceptions. See glossary of psychiatry. Initial psych ...

who specializes in

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. He holds the position of Professor at the

University of California, San Diego The University of California, San Diego (UC San Diego or colloquially, UCSD) is a public university, public Land-grant university, land-grant research university in San Diego, California. Established in 1960 near the pre-existing Scripps Insti ...

and at the

University of California Riverside The University of California, Riverside (UCR or UC Riverside) is a public land-grant research university in Riverside, California. It is one of the ten campuses of the University of California system. The main campus sits on in a suburban distr ...

and serves as an Honorary Fellow in the psychiatry department at the

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. He is the chairman of Neuroscience Education Institute (NEI) and Arbor Scientia Group. Stahl also serves as an Editor-in-chief of CNS Spectrums. He has authored over 600 articles and chapters, with an H-index of 72, and has given more than 2,000 scientific presentations and abstracts. Stahl has also published a novel, Shell Shock, and a biography of Nicola Tesla.

Education and early career

Stahl holds undergraduate and medical degrees from

Northwestern University Northwestern University is a private research university in Evanston, Illinois. Founded in 1851, Northwestern is the oldest chartered university in Illinois and is ranked among the most prestigious academic institutions in the world. Charte ...

. He also holds a Ph.D. degree in pharmacology and physiology from the

University of Chicago The University of Chicago (UChicago, Chicago, U of C, or UChi) is a private research university in Chicago, Illinois. Its main campus is located in Chicago's Hyde Park neighborhood. The University of Chicago is consistently ranked among the b ...

. Stahl has received training in three different medical specialties, namely internal medicine at the University of Chicago, neurology at the University of California in San Francisco, and psychiatry at

Stanford University Stanford University, officially Leland Stanford Junior University, is a private research university in Stanford, California. The campus occupies , among the largest in the United States, and enrolls over 17,000 students. Stanford is consider ...

. He is board certified in psychiatry.

Career

Stahl has conducted research on the effectiveness of

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in major depression through a randomized controlled trial, a review of the current nomenclature for psychotropic agents, and an introduction to the Neuroscience-based Nomenclature. Additionally, his team researched on the evolution of GABA A receptor modulators as hypnotics in their search for perfect sleep. Stahl has held faculty positions at Stanford University, the

University of California at Los Angeles The University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) is a public university, public Land-grant university, land-grant research university in Los Angeles, California. UCLA's academic roots were established in 1881 as a Normal school, teachers colle ...

(UCLA), the Institute of Psychiatry London, and the Institute of Neurology London. He is currently a Health Sciences Clinical Professor of Psychiatry and Neuroscience at the

, as well as an Adjunct Professor of Psychiatry at the

University of California San Diego The University of California, San Diego (UC San Diego or colloquially, UCSD) is a public land-grant research university in San Diego, California. Established in 1960 near the pre-existing Scripps Institution of Oceanography, UC San Diego is t ...

and at the State University of New York Upstate Medical University at Syracuse. He is also an Honorary Visiting Senior Fellow at the

in the United Kingdom. Stahl is the Director of psychopharmacology services and academic programs for the California Department of State Hospital System, which has five facilities and serves 6500 patients. He plays a leadership role in addressing violence and the decriminalization of the seriously mentally ill. Previously, he served as the Executive Director of Clinical Neurosciences at the Merck Neuroscience Research Center in the UK for several years.

Editorships

Stahl is serving as an editorial board member of

International Review of Psychiatry The ''International Review of Psychiatry'' is a bimonthly peer-reviewed medical journal published by Taylor & Francis on behalf of the Institute of Psychiatry (King's College London). The editors-in-chief are Dinesh Bhugra (Institute of Psychiatry ...

, Journal of Psychiatry in Clinical Practice, Neuropsychopharmacology, Journal of Psychotic Disorders, Clinical Neuropsychiatry, Psychiatry/Innovations in Clinical Neuroscience, Expert Opinion on Pharmacotherapy, Acta Psychiatrica Scandinavica, therapeutic Advances in Psychopharmacology, Neuropsychiatry, Frontiers in Psychopharmacology. He has written over 60 textbooks and edited 15 others, including the best-selling and award-winning textbook, Stahl’s Essential Psychopharmacology, now in its fifth edition. He has also served on numerous medical and scientific advisory boards for various organizations, including the pharmaceutical industry, biotechnology and medical information industry, and non-profit and public service organizations.

Partial bibliography

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Publications

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Awards and distinctions

Legacy

In 2015, Northwestern University, his alma mater, honored him by naming their annual award for the best medical student going into psychiatry the Stephen Stahl award.

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Stahl, Stephen Living people 1951 births People from Carlsbad, California University of Chicago alumni Northwestern University alumni American psychiatrists American male writers People from Wauseon, Ohio